Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide - Manual (Page 79)

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12 P2V Migration
12.1 How to Perform a P2V Migration
To reduce hardware requirements, there is often a need to migrate physical machines to virtual ones.
To perform a physical to virtual migration (P2V), you need to boot your physical machine from
Acronis bootable Media, create a full backup and then restore it to a virtual machine.
To perform a P2V migration the following steps are to be made:
1. Create Acronis Bootable Media. Download the Acronis Bootable Media Builder of Acronis Backup
for VMware from the My products & Downloads section of your account at the Acronis website.
Install it.
2. Boot the physical machine that you need to migrate to virtual from Acronis Bootable Media.
3. Create a full backup of the physical machine.
4. Run Acronis Backup for VMware web console, connect to the Acronis Agent and click Restore on
the Actions tab.
5. Select the created backup and choose the target ESX(i) host where to restore the backup.
Please, note, that P2V is supported for Windows machines only (Windows 2000 SP4 and higher
versions).